Carrots vs. Candy

Have you ever noticed how many songs there are that include sweets? And how few about other foods? There are even bands called "Cake", "Hot Chocolate," "Carolina Chocolate Drops," "Vanilla Ice," and "Sweet." Not to mention "Fats Waller"

Some songs I thought of off the top of my head  (and with a little help from Google) are:

Good Ship Lollipop

How Sweet It Is (To be Loved by You)

The Candy Man

Sugar Sugar

American Honey

American Pie

Big Rock Candy Mountain

My Sweet Lord

That's the Kind of Sugar Papa Likes

Sugar Mama

Sweet Surrender

Sugar We're Going Down Swinging

Shake Shake Shake

Sweet Sixteen

Chocolate Rain

You Treat Me Like Chocolate

Brown Sugar

Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost

That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles

Playground in my Mind (I'm gonna buy me all kinds of candy...")

Shake, Rattle & Roll

Incense and Peppermints

Shortnin’ Bread

 

And then there's movies...Chocolat, Willie Wonka and The Chocolate Factory

But just for fun I tried to think of songs that mention healthy foods...

Who's in the Strawberry Patch with Sally?

Lemon Tree

California Raisins

One Bad Apple

Strawberry Fields Forever

Banana Boat Song (Day-O)

Bananas in Pajamas

Mares Eat Oats

Put the Lime in the Coconut

Eatin' Goober Peas

Tomato/Tomahto

Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree

Yes! We Have No Bananas

My Bologna (Weird Al)

Addicted to Spuds (Weird Al)

Peaches

Octopus's Garden

She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain  

(We'll all have chicken and dumplings when she comes)

Jambalaya (Hank Williams)

Jambalaya (on the Bayou)

I Heard It Through the Grapevine

Way Down Yonder in the Pawpaw Patch

Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush

The Joker (Really love your peaches...)

Then there's "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" ...Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks

"Eat It" by Weird Al

"Breakfast in America"

"Breakfast at Tiffany's"

"Hey Good Lookin'" (What you got cookin'?)

"Food, Glorious Food" (Oliver)

Alice's Restaurant

Supper Time

One website says that "sugar" or "candy" in songs stands for sex. Maybe that's why there are so many songs about it! Now I don't just overeat, I'm a sex fiend!

Oh Good Gravy! This is all just a bit too much!